netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH V5] qdisc: bulk dequeue support for qdiscs with TCQ_F

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Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2014 05:38:41 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>,
	Dave Taht <dave.taht@...il.com>, toke@...e.dk
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH V5] qdisc: bulk dequeue support for qdiscs with
 TCQ_F_ONETXQUEUE

On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 14:25 +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> You're right, but this is not related to this patch specifically.
> But sure, we can look into moving validate_xmit_skb calls outside of the
> qdisc root locked sections.

Yes please.

> 
> > 2) TSO support. Have you ideas how to perform this ?
> 
> Yes, the idea was to just remove the skb_is_gso() test and limit
> dql_avail() result to e.g. 128k to avoid a '8-fat-gso-skbs-in-a-row' scenario.

Really I think you are mistaken about GSO/TSO being fat skb. This is not
a qdisc concern, but packets producer. Think of TSO autosizing which
already takes care of this.

> 
> Did you have any other ideas in mind?

I guess my question was more like : Should I wait you sending patches,
or should I do this ?

We are approaching merge window, and I would like to get this sorted out
for linux-3.18

Thanks


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